What true crime has changed your mind?
the true crime that's worth your time
We’re a decisive lot. I know this from the comments and emails we get here at Best Evidence — we are a group of folks who look at the facts presented, make a decision, and stick with it. (We’d be great jurors, if jury selection didn’t always seem to require that we know nothing about any cases!)
That is, until even more facts, or additional context is provided. Sarah and I were talking yesterday about properties that changed our minds about cases: for example, how The Dropout podcast did such a nice job of casting Theranos’s misdeeds within the larger bullshit of Silicon Valley that we started thinking more about male founders who did far worse and were lionized than about Elizabeth Holmes’ deception.
Then there are other properties that seem intended to change our minds about a case and fail. Broken Harts is that one for me; I reviewed it a couple years ago and still think about how good it was at painstakingly presenting all the information out there on the tragedy, and how little it actually added to the daily news reports on the case. By the time I got to the end of the podcast, I felt like I had more questions than I had before, not fewer.
What about you? What documentaries, podcasts, or books caused you to reverse course on a case you’d made your mind up about? And what properties clearly tried to do that, and failed? — EB